Comments on: Diane Ravitch Revised: A Critique of Contritionhttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/04/diane-ravitch-revised-a-critique-of-contrition/
a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justiceSat, 27 Sep 2014 17:28:19 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: lichenhttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/04/diane-ravitch-revised-a-critique-of-contrition/#comment-66735
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:37:48 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=16582#comment-66735Ravitch does sound despicable. And yes, these schools are anything but democratic, both historically and in the present time; you can’t have democracy when the schoolteacher beats the students with a wooden board, and nor when the administration sets the rules, the curriculum, and the manifesto all on it’s own. We need real democracy in our schools if they are to be necessary at all–for students to have active, spontaneous, democratic control over the curriculum, over what they want to learn and explore at any given moment, and over the total structure and format of the school itself. The students at large won’t go for the elitist, exclusionary, meritocratic model if the choice is up to them.
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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:02:21 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=16582#comment-66729In US, school=tool. A great tool for subjugating most americans. On the other hand, treating medicly americans might render them less dependent or subjugated; so it is not allowed.

Free speech is also allowed as long as nobody hears u. Voting is allowed in all countries. And the freer the vote, the more misery and warfare. So, voting=hoping.
In congress, tho, voting=acting. So, actors=equal factors while non-actors=non-factors. tnx